Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir
# Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir

Milltown–Head of Bay d'Espoir is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 669 in the Canada 2021 Census.

In January 2017, Bay d'Espoir Academy, along with the local RCMP detachment and Milltown Town Hall/Fire Department, was set ablaze in an act of arson. The original school was located in Milltown. A new school was built on a parcel of land in St. Alban's with construction completed in October 2021.

## Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir had a population of 669 living in 320 of its 358 total private dwellings, a change of -10.7% from its 2016 population of 749. With a land area of 24.95 $km^2$ (9.63 sq mi), it had a population density of $26.8/km^2$ (69.4/sq mi) in 2021.

